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Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence
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I'm fairly(pun intended) certain my next phone will be a Fairphone. What would be the main reasons not to buy it? I don't mind the size, I don't need an amazing camera but I do wish it had a headphone jack. That said, I expect to flash Lineage on my OnePlus 6 and use it a bit longer, to avoid e-waste for a bit.
Reasons not to buy it that ive seen so far :
My personal opinion is that if you can flash a rom, you might as well get a fairphone if youre ok with the price. Fairphone is a bit behind on updates, but lineageos fixes most of that (specially once they release android 14 )
I'm in Europe, so the problems with coverage shouldn't be an issue here, as far as I've seen.
As mentioned, I'm a bit miffed about the headphone jack, but I guess I can live with it if their Bluetooth chip is optimized for audio ( I found a post on Fairphone's official forum from a guy who says he's tested the Fairphone 5 several Bluetooth codecs, including aptX,and it works, so that's enough for me.
I also don't use emulators, so yeah, I guess there's very little reason for me to avoid Fairphone.